@emdatabank.bsky.social EMPIAR entry for stomatin complex from @fravallese.bsky.social and myself released - I hope it will be useful for folks studying #cryoem compositional heterogeneity in pseudo/mixed symmetry systems, as classifying out AQP1 and UT-B was quite a challenge for us at least!

Fantastic new study charting the molecular atlas of #CO2 fixing compartments in seaweed! Yet another convergently evolved pyrenoid, with its own distinct Rubisco linker and binding site. There really is a "molecular kaleidoscope of pyrenoid diversity (™️Oliver M-C)" 🙌 @james-r-barrett.bsky.social 🌊🌾🧪

A new PAMP, a new innate immunity principle and a new preclinical application. I am so pleased to share our study on STING activation mechanisms in health and disease. Led by the fantastic Stephanie Ragland, follow the link below for a summary of all we learned. www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

#JobOpening: We are seeking a Head of the Core Facility for Protein Biochemistry at our newly established location in #Berlin Dahlem. 💶 Pay grade: up to TVöD Bund E14 ⏰ Apply by August 23, 2026 📅 Start date: next possible date 👉 Application form: jobs.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/jobposting/2...

The world is surely already waiting for the next paper. The good news: the wait will soon be over! This little gem was created through a fantastic collaboration! @asm.org

Please share 🙏 We invite master’s students, PhD candidates, and early-career researchers working on cyanobacteria, to join us in České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 6–9 September 2026. 🦠 Participation is free of charge! 🗓 Registration deadline: 15 July 2026 Links in the thread down below 👇

Regulation of cyanobacterial type IV pilus-dependent functions by interaction between a c-di-GMP receptor and two transcription factors www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The history of nitroplast, a new N2 fixing organelle A wonderful story, worth watching youtu.be/g9B3gBhcwqM?...

Our data suggest that SepN forms the central plug of the septal junction, while FraD spans the cytoplasmic membrane and anchors the complex within the periplasm. Give it a read and dive into the beautiful world of cyanobacteria: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is an "add on" to our recent findings @pnas.org, where we established ComFB signaling proteins as a new family of #cdiNMP receptor proteins, widespread in bacteria 🦠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very cool work from Gürol Süel's lab: Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our latest finding on ComFB, a new #cdiGMP receptor in bacteria Team effort w/ @freecyano.bsky.social at @sfb1381.bsky.social ComFB regulates type IV pilus-dependent functions via sequestering TFs (CRP1/2) @hhu.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Circadian Control of Host–Microbiome Symbioses Annu Rev Microbiol by Talia Akoh-Arrey, Urbashi Basu and John F. Brooks II www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #ChronoSky

Are you attending the #SEBconference in person? Come join @katherinedenby.bsky.social, @thepallavisingh.bsky.social and myself for @theplantjournal.bsky.social fellows session. We will discuss about career development, postdoc-to-PI transition and publishing! Today at 13:00 in the Onice room 🌱👩‍🎓👩‍🔬👩‍💻

Engineering Modular Cargo Loading Strategies for Carboxysome-Derived Protein Particles | ACS Synthetic Biology @cellforganized.bsky.social

#MicrobiologyMonday: Many bacterial species contain specialized subcellular compartments that help organize and protect essential cellular functions. These structures may contribute to pathogen survival and virulence during infection. #mBio: asm.social/2ZP

My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Bacteriophage-mediated cell lysis externalizes a metabolically valuable nutrient to broadly modulate bacterial communities -in #ISMEJournal academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Conservation and evolution of the ribosome across the photosynthetic lineage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

De novo designed oligomers that respond to copper, small molecules, and phosphorylation... Using a single design strategy? 🧬⚙️ 🎉 Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint—a collaboration between the Khmelinskaia, Correia, Schoeder and a Tinnefeld labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RNA can build. A short RNA self-assembles into a 60-subunit icosahedral cage like a viral capsid, but made entirely of RNA. The striking preprint also reveals a 57-nt RNA filament at ~2.7 Å. Congratulations, Lin Huang and colleagues! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super excited to launch this search for a new endowed professor at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch! Join us to build a research cluster in Climate Biophysics! 🌍🌊🌾🔬🧪 This is a unique opportunity to create a community in Basel🇨🇭working together on this timely topic! ⏳🌡️ Questions? Please reach out! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Membrane protein solubilization and structure determination using de novo–designed proteins | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plz spread the words: We have 2 opens for Full (W3) and Associate (W2) professorships @hhu.de Düsseldorf on Experimental Biophysics Come and join us to shape both physics & biology departments and let's make some great science together! berufungsportal.hhu.de

Two positions (see the text, W2 and W3!!!) in Experimental Medical Biophysics have just been announced here, @hhu.de Come and let's make some great science together! 🤓🔬🧬🧪 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w2-prof...

We have an opening for a motivated & skilled Doctoral researcher in the group (Düsseldorf, Germany). Candidates with strong background in Biophysics/Biochemistry/Structural biology are welcome to apply. Applications are possible exclusively via the University portal: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...

What is the impact of phage biocontrol on plant immune responses and bacterial virulence? Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social

We solved a high resolution structure of the nucleosome core particle directly from nuclear extract from a single T25 flask (3 mL culture). No affinity purification. No sucrose gradients. Just lysate on grids. Raw data available now for anyone who wants to reprocess. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cyanobacteria as biochemical treasure troves: unveiling bioactive metabolites for pharmaceutical and global sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cyanobacterial flocculation as a defence against bacterial predation academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Excited to share our latest publication!🚀🙏🏼🤩 We present ATPLyzer, an advanced ratiometric biosensor that is a clear step forward in sensor-related ATP-research, opening new perspectives for future applications. 📄 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cell-to-cell cooperation through membrane vesicles enhances antibiotic persistence @science.org @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

and then what example do we set for early career scientists with this? I can already see that only people having „top“ preprints will have chances to find positions. Dont we already have enough competition bias?

open science should not be competition it is about the scientific spirit to share findings with your scientific communities to improve/broaden our knowledge or inspire each other. I feel like research these days is only about competition and who has the „best“ paper…

Online Now: Oligomer disassembly activates an HEPN-containing bacterial defense system Online now:

1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen

Organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance 🌿🔋🍃 Looking ahead in this joint perspective 🔮 with the Fernie and Sonnewald labs @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚀 Can automation scale #cryoEM? We recently demonstrated it is possible to make #cryo-EM more routine and scalable testing across 21 challenging #GPCR datasets, a real-world scenario for #SBDD, achieving results equal or better than manual processing. Read more 👉 cryosparc.com/blog/automat...

“Glam journals are awful! We shouldn’t care about journal names or IF.” hey, here’s a new metric that we should all use to judge science @qedscience.bsky.social metrics 😒

This is my favorite part: At press time, the ERC had received a complaint from a rejected applicant in Portugal whose sapling's oak was eaten by 🐐🐐 goats 🐐🐐, and was reviewing whether this constituted grounds for an extension.

That's totally funny 🤣 A rejected applicant in Munich has already planted her oak. She named it “Consolidator.” “I talk to it and tell it about my research. It is a better listener than my last review panel.“ she said. ,🤣🤣🤣 This is hilarious 😂 😂 😂 inpreparation.substack.com/p/erc-now-re...

Looking for an efficient way to clone and purify your proteins? Check out our new Vector-Set with lots of different tags, especially useful for GreenGate users. Including a low-cost DIY HRV3C-protease (PreScission) purification strategy. doi.org/10.64898/202...

One week to go! 📅 Join the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social & @theplantjournal.bsky.social Webinar: New Insights from Plant Structural Biology on 30 June 2026. Hear from leading researchers and explore current perspectives in plant science. Book now: www.sebiology.org/resource/gcp...

Discovering nickel enzymes within the aldo-keto reductase superfamily #chemistry #enzymes #nickel doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The biology of jumbo phages | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74333-0

Discovering nickel enzymes within the aldo-keto reductase superfamily #chemsky

Influence of heterotrophs on phage infection of marine picocyanobacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow! The Bacillus subtilis circadian clock coordinates intricate spatiotemporal organisation: 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #subtiwiki

📣 We are hiring! In the collaborative research center 'Plant Ecological Genetics' @teamthomma.bsky.social searches a PhD candidate to study the role of plant-associated microbiota in plant density responses and inter-plant competition. See project A07: sl1nk.com/b7z0doc Deadline July 10!

Deciphering the metabolic details of L-lysine toxicity in cyanobacteria doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial